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Spread of unfounded, untrue or inaccurate information is not a new issue. Use of information technology to produce, direct and transmit, strategically and with specific political ends, is. What has been proposed, on regulatory terms, to deal with disinformation campaigns? The price of information Information production, on the sense of focus, agenda and targeting…

Today’s post intends to present an interview with Cristiano Ferri Faria, held on 09/21/2018 about deliberative democracy, projects of the Chamber of Deputies of e-democracy and use of technology by the public service. In addition to author of several works on e-government and public policies, Cristiano is a legislative analyst ex-director and founder of LabHacker.…

Between November 12th and 14h, 2018, researchers from the Internet and Society Reference Institute (IRIS) attended the 13th Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The event, which brings together actors from different sectors around the world, had the workshop “CLOUD Act & e-Evidence: implications for the Global South”, proposed by IRIS in partnership with the Internet Steering…

The childhood is a phase of inherent parental care. The parents are responsible for children education, feed, love and care. This task was always hard, however, in digital society, the parents got some allies and other great enemies for this task. The children are fascinated for technology. They get hypnotized whenever they see the shining…

On 13/09, the team of researchers from the University of Brasilia (UnB) responsible for examining the Supreme Court of Brazil’s case distribution system published an advisory opinion with the results of its evaluation. In today’s post, we interviewed Professor Henrique Araújo Costa, one of the group’s researchers, regarding the process and the team’s conclusions. …

From Mirrors to Data: The 21st Century Digital Barter Probably, every Brazilian who studied the first years of Brazilian history knows the meaning of the term “barter”. Nowadays, we find inadmissible that colonizers negotiated with native objects of small value in exchange for one of the most valuable and coveted commodities in Europe at that…

In May of this year, the Supreme Court of Brazil issued a notice to evaluate and improve its process distribution algorithm. This system is responsible for assigning, through a lottery, the causes to the ministers who will be its rapporteurs. This post discusses some of the issues involving transparency and security in the use of…

For the academic community and professionals who deal with privacy protection, as well as for society at large, 2018 is already a year to celebrate a series of achievements for the institutionalization of data protection: (i) the modernization of the first binding international instrument on the processing of personal information, the Convention 108 of the…

On April 24th of this year, the Commission for Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and Informatics approved Bill 383 of 2017, which is still in progress. The intention of the bill is to recognize E-Sports (or electronic sports) as a valid sporting category in the country. The purpose of this post is to analyze the initiative…

In the last few years, “Data is the new oil” has become a common catchphrase used by media and scholars alike to highlight the immense value acquired by this 21st century commodity. Although there are several important differences between the two resources, such as the fact that, unlike oil, data is reusable (Even to generate…